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ricardo villalobos / sei es drum / sei es drum
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louderbach (troy pierce) / enemy love remix ep 2 / underline
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Tatjana Hallbaum

donnacha costello / colorseries / minimise
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stewart walker & swat-squad / addict / pulsewith
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claro intelecto / dependent / modern love
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gui boratto / tipologia / parquet recordings
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massi dl / wonderland / trapez
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mark broom / platinum ep / material series
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editors / an end has a start / kitchenware
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vector lovers / hush now / soma
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tim hecker / norberg / room 40
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thomas brinkmann / reverb, toronto / 09/11/07



Legendary, Thomas Brinkmann rocked Toronto the other night at another well done Pusher hosted event. The evening took place at the Reverb, which is a bit of a grungy place and not normally used for electronic music events, but it's amazing what you can do in a dark space with quality visuals. The evening felt like a bit of a reunion for me, as it reunited all the techno lovers of the city, which was cause for celebration in itself. Wabi also contributed greatly to the nostalgia, as they hosted a second room that was clearly the place to be. Dj Ozawa and Nitsuji created a happy dancing party room and spun many favourite classics. Thomas Brinkmann's spirits were also running high as he was having a great time on stage which rubbed off on all the dancers. What a great night, now the next highlight will be Alex Smoke December 15th.
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va / soma 2007 / soma
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melchior productions ltd / no disco no future / perlon
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I love these. I wanna be this guys friend.

mikael stavöstrand & franco cinelli / sunday blue / sunset diskos
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maetrik / polygon bug / iron box
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Monster Factory

Ironic Sans / David Friedman

marko furstenberg / butterbrotpapier / tendenzen freier entfaltung
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gabriel ananda & dominik eulberg / kirschplunder & jasmin tee bei gabriel / traum
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reinhard voigt vs. frank martiniq vs. pan/tone / case closed / cereal/killers
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dualism / speech defect / archipel
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Kara Walker

celophane / what about tech now? / toys for boys

01 jay haze / change something (pier bucci remix) (4:44)
02 loSoul / you know (supermayer remix) (6:18)
03 rocco branco / catch & release (5:10)
04 paradroid / palm trunc stalagmites (s-max remix) (3:46)
05 alex smoke / neds (3:53)
06 nathan fake / dinamo (5:57)
07 sasse / soul sounds (dirt crew solid diamond remix) (4:34)
08 dub kult / on and on (guido schneider remix) (4:23)
09 wighnomy brothers / pele bloss (6:30)
10 steve barnes / cosmic sandwich (dominik eulberg remix) (6:33)
11 backlash / the sex games (pan/tone fukit remix) (4:07)
12 mathew jonson / love letter to the enemy (5:53)
13 sammy / goossens roommates (3:30)
14 trentemøller / polar shift (4:49)
15 ricardo vs. jay / it’s alright (3:54)
16 phil quenum & andrès garcia / podium (3:31)
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Christopher David Ryan

Géraldine Georges

thomas brinkmann/alex under / naranja monje / cmyk musik
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va / cadenza contemporary 01 (mixed by luciano) / cadenza
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michal ho / screw the coffeemaker / tuning spork records
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melchior productions ltd. / don juan/in the spirit / perlon
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Chris Ede

sigur ros / hvarf/heim / xl records
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hauschka / room to expand / fat cat
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pluramon / the monstrous surplus / karaoke kalk
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burial / untrue / hyperdub
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Joseph Szabo

va / expansion/contraction / m_nus
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kaliber / 16 / kaliber
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mossa / salt peanuts / frankie rec
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gurtz / snobs al rio / liga elektronika
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David Uzzardi

pole / steingarten (remixes) / ~scape
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kit clayton/sutekh / i left my heart in san francisco volume one / adjunct
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fluorescent tubes powered by the lines above.
Richard Box

alka rex / shapes to phases / supralinear/mille plateaux
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boy is fiction / boy is fiction / list records
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Aorta

fairmont / coloured in memory / border community
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va / from antenna to antenna / sender
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bloody mary & yapacc / split 5 / sender
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agoria / at the controls / resist music
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mihalis safras / i need my mom / syndikaat records
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you work for them

radiohead / in rainbows
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butane + someone else / tigerbitch / alphahouse
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butane / sweet ‘n candy (visionquest remixes) / dumb unit
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dublee / the beep / mule
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dilo vs gurtz / glasnot ep / einmaleins musik
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Linn Olofsdotter

jamespatrick / dance all night, ponies mix / orac
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alter ego / why not?! / klang
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Richard Hogg

beirut / danforth music hall, toronto / 03/10/2007

Beirut's new album The Flying Club Cup has been the "it" album for me, for the past couple of weeks and I was lucky enough to score a ticket to their sold out show at the very last minute. Beirut's live show was incredible. They performed at the Danforth Music Hall, a sit down theatre, but the crowd was incapable of sitting still. The cheering and applause made me think I was at some Backstreet Boys concert. Toronto crowds are known for being unresponsive, but this was not the case for Beirut. People were dancing in the isles and someone even yelled at one point that the ushers were being assholes. Nearing the end of the show 80 or so people jumped on stage to dance while Beirut continued to perform. It was out of control. In the middle of the concert Final Fantasy made a guest appearance to sing "The Penalty" featured on the new album. What an amazing show.




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onur oezer / kasmir / vacant
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mitsuaki komamura / weedis ep / revolver
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lawrence / rabbit tube / mule
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carsten nicolai + olaf bender / white line light, nuit blanche, toronto / 29/09/2007

"The sound and light work of Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender explores the limitations of what we can see and hear. Taking this as its point of departure, white line light uses electricity as a conduit to identify and lend shape to the invisible and inaudible phenomena in our midst, at the same time creating a palpable tension between the work itself and its unique architectural setting."


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reggy van oers / metza / trapez
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blaze / lovelee dae (remixes) / vivid trax
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Julia Peirone

va / elevation center mix / modulade

1 seltsam & strahler / wasserleiche
2 björk - headphones (mika vaino edit)
3 alva noto & ryuichi sakamoto / trioon II
4 alva noto & ryuichi sakamoto / noon
5 esem / Sofiatram as i hear it
6 mapstation / listening to stockholm
7 hura yup / moon lymph
8 boards of canada / kaini industries
9 kammerflimmer kollektief / betaeubt
10 nils frahm / durton
11 yonderboi / outro
12 swod / gehen
13 adolf noise / was ist zuviel zeit (dub)
14 dictaphone / sonne free
15 ubertonmensch / skadi
16 boards of canada / turquoise hexagon Sun
17 mapstation / the sinuous ribbon
18 four tet / chia
19 dictaphone / nacht
20 dictaphone / k 2
21 twerk / haiiro
22 rokia traore’ / deli
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deadbeat / resident advisor mix
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bjork / montreal / 21/09/07

I love visiting Montreal and getting a chance to see Bjork again was the icing on the cake. She played Jacques Cartier, a pier in old Montreal, a gorgeous outdoor venue with the city skyline behind us. The concert was very similar to the Toronto show with a few different songs in the mix. The biggest impression was when Bjork sang "Declare Independence" to a Francophone audience.

The lyrics to Declare Independence are:

Declare independence!
Don't let them do that to you!
Declare independence!
Don't let them do that to you!

Start your own currency!
Make your own stamp
Protect your language
Make your own flag!
Raise your flag!

Hearing Bjork belt "Protect your language" and "Make your own flag" as the closing song, in a province that wants to separate from Canada was a little unnerving. When she sang it in Toronto, it didn't have the same feeling or impact.
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bjork / radio city music hall, new york / 02/05/07
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ulrich schnauss / rivoli, toronto / 09/26/07


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ulrich schnauss / goodbye / independiente
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manual / lost days, open skies and streaming tides / darla
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Maxalot

philip sherburne / chips the light fantastic mix
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marek hemmann / live at mono, amsterdam / 14/09/07
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Matthew Bryant

samim / flow mix

luciano - fourges et sabres
unknown - waiting for the sun
cassy - somelightuntothenight
falko brocksieper - blackbox
david brown - feel love (rednail kidz remix)
samim - setupone
cajmere feat dajae - say you will
inner city - groovin' without doubt
mano - juke them hoes
samim - ukaka
robert armani - dance mania comp. 06
phil weeks feat dj red eye - make you wet (david duriez mix)
daniel bell - wild live
matt john - soulkaramba
a guy called gerald - voodoo ray
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cio d'or / aquamarin22 mix
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minilogue / inca ep / wir
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animal collective / peacebone (pantha du prince remix) mp3

dominik eulberg

dixon

mathias modica / munk

michael reinboth

justus köhncke

gabor schablitzki / wighnomy brothers

hans nieswandt / steve bug / frank wiedemann ame / tobi neumann


sylvain chauveau / s / type
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maetrik / transform ep / regular
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john tejada & cabanne / 7th city classics vol 2 / 7th city records
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parallel 9 aka steve rachmad / technique ep / a.r.t.less
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redshape / unfinished symmetry / present
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jake fairley/james holden / drake underground, toronto / 13/09/07

Techno in Toronto has been bleak all summer, but last night made up for it. The ADD hosted event combined with it being a Toronto Film Festival party, attracted a full house to the Drake Underground. The $5 event was a full on dance party. Toronto native, Jake Fairley played a quality live set under his Fairmont alias. I love his Fairmont alias, but he definitely jacked it up a notch to keep the dance floor grooving. Gorgeous deep minimal techno with some new Berlin influenced Euro-trance sounds. Quirky James Holden did a DJ set with CD's. With his new album "The Idiots are Winning," I was hoping for a live set. Nevertheless, he played some quality tracks and finished off an amazing night of booty shaking techno.
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fairmont aka jake fairley

james holden

james holden / the idiots are winning / border community
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henrik schwarz live / studio !k7
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Tara Donovan


Unfortunately, I'm unable to attend Decibel this year. If anyone is going and would like to submit a review and some photo's from the festival, I'd be more than happy to post them.

bjork / virgin festival, toronto island / 08/09/07

...Bjork's performance at the opening night of the Virgin Festival was so transporting that I forgive the festival its glaring faults as an event.

Bjork has been making strange and beautiful music for a couple of decades, and she's still exploring a frontier that nobody else can find.

Her dynamic show seemed to exist in three tenses at once: present, future and primeval past. Her music from ten years ago (she played several items from 1997's Telegram) sounded as fresh and original as the things she pulled from last spring's Volta. The show was impeccably planned and produced, yet she romped around the stage in her Pierrot-as-baroque-angel outfit as if making everything up on the spot.

No one else could tour with a brass band and make it seem like the coolest sound on earth. The 20 women of the Icelandic band Wonder Brass, and a battery of live percussion, grounded the music in organic tones that gave new point to the boldly synthetic sounds of synthesizers and drum machines. Songs such as Declare Independence and Earth Invaders were wildly spectacular, but for me the most mind-blowing thing was her performance of Cover Me, which with its clotted organ accompaniment sounded like high-church contemporary music of a kind that would never otherwise transfix 25,000 pop fans standing in a dark field...
Robert Everett-Green




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swod / sekunden / city centre offices
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sleeparchive/antti rannisto / untitled / sleeparchive
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popnoname / white album / italic
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chloé / the waiting room / kill the dj records
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Sam Javanrouh's amazing photography mostly highlighting Toronto.

anja schneider / resident advisor
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pig & dan / imagine / cocoon recordings
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riley reinhold / light in my eyes ep / my best friend
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gui boratto / the rivington ep / galaktika
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Dork Mag
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shuta hasunuma / ok bamboo / western vinyl
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efterklang / parades / the leaf label
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